Code Blue

Frank Chandler didn’t like the people who’d hired him, or the job that they wanted him to do. The smutty poison-pen letters looked like penny-ante harassment of the doctors and executives in a country-club hospital, and they probably deserved it. It didn’t even smell like blackmail at first. But something in the letters – or about them – led a nice kid to commit suicide. And attracted the interest of a hot-shot enforcer who had no business on the rich side of the river. With a guilty conscience looking over his shoulder and a punk on his tail, Chandler makes the only choice he can live with – if he ever wants to look anyone in the eye again. CODE BLUE - in the spirit of Raymond Chandler and John D. MacDonald.

Tom Sigafoos is an Irish-American author who has lived in northwest Ireland since 2003. His historical crime novel Pool of Darkness was shortlisted for the 2016 Penny Dreadful Novella Prize. Website: www.tomsigafoos.com Email: tomsigafoos@gmail.com The Cursing Stone, his Irish historical novel, was excerpted in The Copperfield Review under the title Egging. His short stories, creative nonfiction and other work have appeared in The Quiet Quarter Anthology, Crannog Literary Magazine, The Cathach Literary Journal, The Leitim Observer, The Leitrim Guardian, All Weather Writing, The Irish Times, *82Review, Authors Publish Magazine, and Trasna. A member of the Irish Writers Centre and WORD, he also serves as Public Relations Officer for the Allingham Arts Association.